Transom-lifter.



No. 773,352. PATENTED 00T. 25, 1904. H. L. TRIMYER. TRANSOM LIFTIEZR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1904.

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UNiTnn STATES Patented October 25, 1904.

HERVY L. TRIMYER, OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA.

TRANSONI-LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,352, dated October 25, 1904.

Application'iiled May 3l, 1904. Serial No. 210,505. (No model.)

To @M r11/tom, it muy concern:

Be it known that I, HnRvY L. TRIMYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Transom-Lifters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to combined transomlifters and pivots for hanging sash in the decks of railroad-cars and other places.

The invention is designed as an improvement upon the device shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 7 46,495, issued to John H. Glassburn December 8, 1903; and its object is to provide a separate device which can be readily applied to the transomlifter to prevent undue lateral movement of the sash which frequently results in displacement of the operating parts of the fixture and dislodgment of the sash, causing it to fall into the car and to sometimes injure its occupants.

In the drawings which form a part hereof, Figure l is a perspective view of the combined transom-lifter and pivot in operative position in conjunction With the sash and its casing and having my improvement applied thereto. F ig. 2 is a vertical section of the fixture and my improvement detached from the sash and casing', and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my improvement detached from the ratchet.

In the said drawings corresponding parts in the several figures thereof are indicated by similar letters and numerals marked thereon.

A represents the frame, and B the sash. O represents the lifter or ratchet part of the fixture, secured to the frame, and D the pivot part, secured to the sash in the usual manner. The lifter or ratchet O consists of an extended plate l, provided with a seat or bearing 2 and having a casing or housing 3, through the ends of which operates a bolt 4, actuated by a coiled spring' 5, one end `of said spring bearing against the inner side of the upper end wall of' the casing and the opposite end bearing against a collar 6 on the b'olt 4. The pivot D consists of a plate 7, provided with a standard 8, at the outer end of which there is a stop 9 and from which a curved section l() extends to and unites with the said plate at 1l, the said curved section being provided with a number of corrugations, the contour of which is such as to form a rest in each of the same and to hold the sash in either of the several positions represented thereby through the medium of the said bolt 4 operating under pressure of the spring 5. The said standard is provided withlaterally-extendingtrunnions l2, one of which operates in 4the bearing 2 of the ratchet O.

The fixture represented in the foregoing description is, the same in construction and operation as that shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 237 ,97 3, issued to Hart and Bissell February 22, 1881, and in itself constitutes no part of my invention. It has developed, however, that such fixtures are faulty in that they are not provid ed with means for preventing the sash from falling from its mountings when there is sufficient lateral movement to permit of same, which is frequently the case and which has resulted in numerous accidents to passengers in railroad-cars.

As the said device has been used extensively for mounting deck-sash in passengercars, much thought has been given to devising means for overcoming the aforesaid objection, which can be applied to the fixtures already in use, thereby saving the expense of new fixtures and at the same time accomplishing the desired result at a trifiing cost. Therefore to that end my present invention consists in a separate member E, formed With angle portions 13 and 14 and a return portion l5,the angle portion 13 having ascreW-hole 16, which registers with a corresponding screwhole in the said extended plate l of' the lifter or ratchet C, and thus by removing the screw by which at this point the fixture is secured to the woodwork the said member E can be ap'- plied. The angle portion 14 being provided4 with a perforation I7, through which the operating end of the bolt l moves, and with the return portion 15, extending down over the rim of the curved section 1()1 as shown7 the sash is guarded against undue displacement.

The advantages of my said improvement will at once be apparent to those interested in the use of the iixture to which it is adapted, especially as it constitutes a separate article ot' manufacture which can be sold as such and applied to said liXtures irrespective of where they mag7 have been purchased or obtained.

Having thus 'fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latentl 1. The combination with a transom-lifter and pivot, of a separate member perforated to receive one of the screws by which the' lifter is secured to the Woodwork and adapted to beheld in position on said lifter by said screw, the said member having a return portion extending'down over the pivot-section to prevent undue lateral movement ot the sash.

2. The combination with a transom-lifter and pivot, of a separate member having a perforation through which the o1')eratingbolt ot' the litter moves and a return portion eX- tending down over the rim of the pivot-section to prevent undue displacement of the sash.

8. The combination with a transom-litter and pivot, of a separate member comprising the angle portions 13 and 14 and return portion 15 and adapted to be secured to the tixture in the manner described.

4C. As a new article of manufacture adapted to be applied to transom-litters to prevent undue displacement of sash, a separate member comprising the angle portions 13 andl and return portion 15, the portion 13 being provided with a screw-hole and the portion 14 with a perforation, as and for the purposes set lt'orth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 26th day of May1 1904.

H. L. TRIMYER.

Witnesses:

WV. H. CULPEPPER, W. G. MADDREY. 

